Office of Outdoor Advertising
Public Meeting
December 10, 2015
11:00 AM
Ten Park Plaza
Transportation Library
Boston, MA 02116
Present:
John Romano, Executive Director
Eileen Fenton, Esq., Counsel
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JOHN ROMANO:
Hello everyone.
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are a little delayed here.
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hearing of the Outdoor Advertising Board.
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see we have a pretty light agenda.
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much, Lydia.
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before we get started with the actual agenda.
Sorry we
Welcome to the December
As you can
Thank you very
Just a couple of housekeeping items
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Our hearing locations are accessible to
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people with disabilities and are near public
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transportation.
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advance of the hearing, if you need any accommodations
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such as assisted listening devices, material and
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excessive formats, or languages, you can contact
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Lydia.
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Lydia.
Upon request, preferable two weeks in
I think we got no requests, is that correct,
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LYDIA QUIRK:
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JOHN ROMANO:
Correct.
Before we get into the
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actual agenda just a couple of things, I wanted to go
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over.
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left, they weren’t here for us.
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Kelleher is taking some pictures.
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staff.
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announcements.
Despite the news cameras that where here and
They are gone.
Jerry
Jerry is on my
Many of you know him, he does the PSA
He is taking photos for some internal
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stuff that we are doing.
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won’t show up on the news or anything.
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So don’t be alarmed, it
The other thing is renewals are being
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processed, as you well know.
You will see on today’s
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agenda there are many many renewals that we have
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listed here.
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stack.
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a month, right, Lydia.
We are still working through a huge
Unfortunately our database was down for almost
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LYDIA QUIRK:
Yes.
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JOHN ROMANO:
Lydia has been doing a
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great job trying to catch up.
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not on here doesn’t mean we haven’t gotten them and we
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are not working through them.
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the stack and we will be processing them.
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Lydia gives me a stack to sign.
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through those.
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So just because you are
We are going through
Every day
We are working
If you have not done any of your
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renewals just a reminder that all licenses and permits
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expire at the end of the year.
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us.
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received.
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Please get those into
As long as they are in our office, they are
So make sure you get those to us.
Also, just a note.
I know that
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everyone knows that we require new applications to be
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in no later than 30-days prior but if you wait until 5
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o’clock on the 30th day, I am not going to promise you
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that you will be on the next month’s agenda.
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a lot of stuff that we are processing, a lot of items
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to go through and some people like to run up at 4:59
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and try to get them in.
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not process it until the next month.
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by law to notify the city or the town actually 30-days
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before.
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can get it in a few days early, that would be great.
We have
We will take it but we may
We are required
Give us a little bit of flexibility.
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If you
Also, we have our sign in sheets.
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table is over there.
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2016 public hearing dates.
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schedules there.
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in case you wanted a hard copy.
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one, give it out to your friends.
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stocking stuffers.
The
We have the schedules for the
There are copies of the
It is also posted on our website but
Feel free to take
They make good
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Eileen, do you want to say a few words.
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EILEEN FENTON:
Yes, thank you.
I just
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wanted to make a quick announcement.
Earlier this
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year some of you may or may not know that the Governor
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signed an Executive Order 562.
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requires all state agencies to review all regulations
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that they have.
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redundant regulations, regulations that our outdated.
Which basically
The exercise will be to look at
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It is kind of a review of all
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regulations, not just MassDOT but every agency in the
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Commonwealth is required to undertake this exercise.
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MassDOT has done so and is underway on its review.
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you all know in our regulations are the regulations of
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Outdoor Advertising, so will be reviewed.
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have a final document yet or what the final changes
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will look like but there will be likely some changes
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to the regulations.
As
We don’t
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The process will be the same, so those
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of you who have participated in our regulatory review
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there will be a public hearing, a notice, all that
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will be available to you.
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statutory required process we will also be conducting
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what is called listening sessions.
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all MassDOT regulations.
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so if you want to come and talk about access permits,
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or outdoor advertising permits, or over dimensional
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load permits for 18 wheelers.
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issue that you want to come and share, you can
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certainly come and do that.
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In addition to the
That will be for
So we don’t have an agenda,
If you have a specific
Again, we will be taking comments we
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won’t necessarily be discussing the merits of the
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changes we will be just kind of collecting ideas.
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that is in addition, again, it is not in lieu of it is
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in addition to the statutory required public hearing
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that we will be conducting.
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The next listening session -- we do
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have them on our website.
I grabbed a couple.
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January 6, it will be here in the second floor
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conference room from 2 to 4.
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conference room, it just said second floor conference
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room.
I don’t have the exact
After that, there will be another one January
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That is in Framingham from 2 to 4.
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Framingham because then it goes to Amherst.
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can go to Amherst to listen to us talk but I just
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grabbed the next two listening session that I felt
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were most convenient to this building.
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I stopped at
So you
So we will keep you updated as to any
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changes to the regulations.
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JOHN ROMANO:
Thank you.
Thank you, Eileen.
Over
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on the sign in table there are copies of the meeting
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minutes from the November 19 Outdoor Advertising
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Hearing.
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those minutes?
Any questions, comments, or concerns on
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(No response)
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JOHN ROMANO:
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mark those approved.
Okay, seeing none we will
Next item on the agenda is an
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application for a new license Logan Digital 129 Border
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Street, East Boston.
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Logan?
Is someone here representing
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ANDREW GOLDBERG:
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JOHN ROMANO:
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ANDREW GOLDBERG:
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JOHN ROMANO:
Andrew Goldberg.
Hey, Andrew, how are you?
Very well sir.
Andrew, I reviewed the
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application and your paperwork.
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everything is in order.
The fee has been paid and we
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have your W9, etcetera.
Your Certificate of Good
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Standing from the Department of Revenue.
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would like to add or say on behalf of the application?
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ANDREW GOLDBERG:
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JOHN ROMANO:
It appears that
Anything you
No.
Great.
Looks like
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everything is in order.
We will take this under
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advisement and we will let you know in about a week or
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so how we rule.
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ANDREW GOLDBERG:
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JOHN ROMANO:
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much.
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application?
Great, thank you very
Are there any comments or concerns on this
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(No response)
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JOHN ROMANO:
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Wonderful, thank you.
As you can see that is
the only active item on the agenda.
There are two and
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a half pages of renewals that are on here, as I said
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earlier.
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note that several applications have been approved
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including many that were on last month’s agenda.
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take a look at those.
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or concerns on any of the items for the record?
Then for the record items.
So
Does anybody have any questions
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(No response)
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JOHN ROMANO:
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I just wanted to
Okay, seeing none.
Any
other public comments on anything else?
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(No response)
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JOHN ROMANO:
Seeing none, I will
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adjourn the meeting.
Thank you all very much.
I want
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to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and happy holidays.
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I want to thank you all for your support during my,
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not really a year, I think it is 10 months, so far.
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think things are going good.
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working with all of you guys and ladies and all of
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your support.
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next year.
I
I really appreciate
We look forward to another good year
Thank you.
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Whereupon, the proceedings were concluded on
December 10, 2015 at 11:14 a.m.)
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C E R T I F I C A T E
I, Tammy A. Hillery, do hereby certify that the
foregoing record is a true and accurate transcription of
the proceedings in the above-captioned matter to the best
of my skill and ability.
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Tammy A. Hillery
**All names not provided were spelled phonetically to
the best of my ability.
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